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- Lab number
- Beta-61073
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus mandible (id. by D.R. Stenton)
- Locality
- Willows Island, Countess of Warwick Sound, outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 I/14
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- July 13, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 470 ± 60
- Significance
- Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
- Context
- one of about 95 walrus mandibles found nested, tooth-side down, forming a sinuous alignment 25 m long
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date is corrected for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- KeDe-13, Anvil Cove 1: A 25 m long alignment of walrus mandibles is thought to represent some sort of hunting ritual. Fitzhugh applies a 350-year marine reservoir correction, yielding an age of 120 +/- 60 BP.